Once again I had to work today :(.
So, after reading the "Science as a Vocation" reading, I was struck most by the dual role of the academic. One cannot be just a scholar or just a teacher in many academic positions. And certainly there are some excellent scholars who get canned because of their abysmal teaching, or vice versa in the case of teachers who never publish. This is especially so in my major of Philosophy, where publication is seen as a necessity beyond all excuse. It's also intriguing that he holds large lectures in contempt. He seems to subscribe to some form of a "tyranny of the majority" theory, which makes some sense. Qualitatively rating teachers isn't something trivial.
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